Chapter 469: Chapter 469: Trouble at the Factory Gate
"Professor Frank, did you just say these Chinese patent medicine pills are what your aunt has been taking long-term?"
"Yes, my aunt is the Queen. There’s a great deal to manage in the inner court every day, so she often suffers from insomnia."
Professor Frank was too embarrassed to tell a young lady that his uncle was the King, and that while there might not be three thousand beauties in the inner court, there were still several dozen.
His aunt spent most of her days dealing with the endless petty squabbles among the Princess Consorts as they vied for favor.
The matters ranged from something as serious as harming another’s unborn child to something as trivial as fighting over a dress.
With his aunt facing such a chaotic mess every day, it was a wonder she didn’t suffer from insomnia and nightmares!
"Poor sleep quality can lead to irritability and nervous exhaustion. It must be treated as soon as possible.
Simply treating it as a common sleep problem is useless. In fact, as time goes on, it will only get worse."
Gu Jiaojiao chose her words carefully, hinting to Frank that she had discovered other substances mixed into the pills.
"Ah! No wonder my aunt has had to increase her dosage every day!" Professor Frank said, his voice low.
"Teacher Jiaojiao, the four of them are returning to their respective countries tomorrow. One of them, Francis, is a senior professor from our country."
Professor Frank’s unspoken question for Gu Jiaojiao was written all over his face.
His expression screamed at her: ’Do you have a better Chinese medicine for Francis to take back with him?’
She exchanged a glance with Principal Shen. ’I definitely have a remedy. Should I give it to them?’
Principal Shen’s look seemed to say: ’A Divine Doctor indeed! Of course you should give it to them if you have it. This is a wonderful opportunity to bring glory to our country.’
Having received the principal’s go-ahead, Gu Jiaojiao looked at Professor Frank seriously and said,
"I have a purely herbal Chinese formula for insomnia and restless sleep, but you probably can’t find the necessary ingredients in your country.
I’ll go home and make them into medicine pills now, and I will bring them to the university for you first thing tomorrow morning."
"Wonderful! Do you need me to help?" Professor Frank asked excitedly.
"That won’t be necessary. You’re all parting ways tomorrow, so you must have plenty to talk about today. I’ll be going now. See you in the morning."
With that, Gu Jiaojiao left without a backward glance. ’Are you kidding? As if I’d bring them along. Impossible.’
Principal Shen watched Gu Jiaojiao’s retreating figure and said to the other foreign professors, "Professor Frank has agreed to teach at Imperial University for a year. He’ll have plenty of time to eat his way through all the delicacies the Imperial City has to offer."
"Haha, that’s true. Teacher Jiaojiao must be in a hurry today. In the future, I’ll follow her and eat my way through all the cuisine of the Empire."
Frank let out a triumphant laugh, earning envious glares from his companions.
They wanted to stay as well, but they lacked his credentials, and more importantly, they didn’t have the freedom to make that choice for themselves.
After returning home, Gu Jiaojiao entered her space, grabbed a chicken, and butchered it. She set aside half to make a soup and kept the other half to stir-fry for dinner.
She already had ready-made medicine pills for insomnia and restless sleep in her space. However, if she simply gave them to Frank, they wouldn’t seem very precious.
Besides, this gave her an excuse to go home and cook for Su Shuochi. Lately, he had been the one coming home to cook and wait for her.
She had seen how exhausted he looked at noon, and her heart ached for him. ’My beloved man shouldn’t have to live such a draining life.’
’Managing two factories all by himself... If Su Shuochi wasn’t drinking the spiritual spring water every day, he probably would have collapsed from exhaustion!’
It wasn’t that the two of them were greedy for money; it was that the country and its people desperately needed this new medical equipment.
A developing nation needs many talented people and pioneers to make personal sacrifices.
Both she and her husband were working so hard, especially Su Shuochi, who wracked his brains every day to innovate.
Even though she had instruments in her space for him to replicate, it was still exhausting for him to draw the schematics and conduct the research all on his own.
Meanwhile, she was also pouring all her effort into treating several heroes, both young and old. With classes to teach as well, she had almost no time to take care of him.
Since she had the time today, Gu Jiaojiao was determined to make a delicious meal to reward him for all his hard work.
As Gu Jiaojiao worried about him, the man on her mind, Su Shuochi, was being informed that a large group of thugs had come to the factory gates to cause trouble.
Su Shuochi knew their factory would cut into some people’s profits and that someone would eventually come looking for trouble.
But he hadn’t expected them to come so soon. He hurried toward the factory entrance.
Although Jiaoci Medical Equipment Factory had powerful backers, those families hadn’t sent anyone to help manage it.
The troublemakers assumed the factory had no backing, so they colluded with several other families to hire dozens of thugs to stir up trouble.
The thugs who came looking for trouble today felt they had powerful backers, so every one of them was full of bravado.
Take the prominent Lin family of the Imperial City, for example, which had marriage ties to several other major families.
The Wang Family and Zhang Family, who deferred to the Lin family, were involved. From the political sphere, Fourth Uncle Fu had also joined in, bringing along some unknown minor officials.
But the security guards at the factory gate were no pushovers. Among them were specially trained Hidden Guards from the Han and Mu families.
These men weren’t the type to be afraid of trouble in the first place, especially after hearing how Gu Jiaojiao had taken down a dozen thugs with her bare hands.
They certainly couldn’t let themselves be looked down on. The moment they saw people at the gate causing trouble, heh, Mu Jiu charged forward without hesitation and started handing out a savage beating.
Not to be outdone, Han Shiyi of the Han family brandished an iron rod custom-made for them by their young master-in-law and charged in, swinging wildly.
Adding to the fray were Wang Yuejin and his two companions. Ever since joining the factory, they had been eating their fill and sleeping soundly.
The three of them were in the middle of a training session; all new employees had to undergo a week of factory training.
The men trained in combat, and the women in etiquette. Jiaoci Medical Equipment Factory refused to hire any shrew-like employees.
Therefore, all employees had to complete the training before they could start their jobs. Of course, food and lodging were provided during the training period.
Anyone who failed the training would be dismissed, so everyone put their all into learning.
Wang Yuejin and his two companions were the only ones in the current training batch. Hearing a shout from a guard at the entrance, they immediately rushed over and joined the fight.
The group of troublemakers consisted of over eighty thugs. Their leader, a man with a scarred face, was a former petty thief.
His subordinates had decent Combat Power, and besides, they had been paid by a wealthy client to come and trash the place.
They believed they had a powerful backer, which was why they’d come to the factory gates to stir up trouble with such confidence.
Unfortunately for them, they had run into Mu Jiu and Han Shiyi, not to mention Wang Yuejin and his friends, who had grown up doing hard manual labor.
And so, their group of over eighty men was being thoroughly thrashed by a dozen or so people. The scar-faced leader was howling in agony under Mu Jiu’s beating.
His face twisted in agony, and a cold sweat beaded on his forehead, making his expression look savage and distorted. He couldn’t stop himself from crying out for his parents.
His agonized screams echoed through the sky in the city’s outskirts.
"Tell me who sent you here to cause trouble! Don’t talk? I’ll beat you ’til you’re crying for your mommy! We have backers, too, you know."
Mu Jiu said arrogantly, his foot planted on the scar-faced leader’s back.
"That’s right! Grind them all into the dirt! Let these sons of bitches know how tough we are!"
Just as Han Shiyi was cursing, they heard the sound of approaching police sirens. "WEE-WOO... WEE-WOO... WEE-WOO~"
